Cops: Dead Girls In Freezer Kin Of Suspect

2 Md. Girls Found Encased In Ice Are Adopted Daughters Of Woman Suspected Of Killing Them

(AP)  Police in Maryland said Thursday they are confident that two girls found encased in ice in a basement freezer are the adopted daughters of a woman suspected of killing them.

Montgomery County police said they have tentatively identified the girls as Jasmine Nicole Bowman, who would have been 9, and Minnet Cecila Bowman, who would have been 11.

Police found the bodies last month in Renee Bowman's freezer in Lusby. They believe the children may have been dead since at least last November, when the family moved from Rockville, about 60 miles away in Montgomery County.

Bowman, 43, is a suspect but has not been charged in the girls' deaths. She is charged with abusing a third adopted daughter who was found alive.

The identification was made by detectives, who compared the bodies to a photograph of the girls that was found in Bowman's home and labeled by a family friend. The identification is considered tentative, but police say they don't expect autopsies to show anything different.

Dr. David Fowler, Maryland's chief medical examiner, said the photograph was not clear enough to identify the girls with absolute certainty.

"I think what we have is a good presumptive ID," he said. "The photographs do not exclude these two individuals, and they do look somewhat similar."

Fowler said his office is still hoping to confirm the identities through scientific means, such as fingerprints and dental work, but that is often difficult for children. The fact that they were adopted complicates DNA identification, he said.

Police said they still have not confirmed when, where and how the girls died. Autopsies have been performed, but Fowler said lab tests that could shed light both on the cause of death and the identities are expected to take several more weeks.

Investigators have said Bowman told them the remains are those of her daughters and that they died in Rockville. Police are trying to confirm where and when they were last seen alive. They have not found any record of the children being in school, police spokeswoman Lucille Baur said.

In addition to Rockville and Lusby, Bowman has lived in two other counties and Washington, D.C., police said.

[runningralph]

The conditions that laed up to this atrocity were not created by African-Americans. They were created by liberal policies in the government. Welfare, WIC, foodstamps, Medicaid, were all created by the US taxpayers. These programs have caused a serious distortion in the natural evolvement of human society. These types of incidents are the repercussion.

[wl7bzh]

The black community is going to have to get together and stop this *** themselves. They have created a generation of people who have no responsibility to themselves, the community or even humanity for God sakes.
Posted by retmilspouse at 11:03 PM : Oct 09, 2008

And the ethnicity of the prison system is predominately what? Yea, I know, they''re in prison because they are the ones that are the victims.

Race, creed, color, religion and sexuality as an excuse for criminal behavior is wearing a little thin.

[airboatboy1]

***. By the looks of her picture she looks like a beautiful, intelligent person. Who would of thought it?

[that-one-2009]

Even if they were on ice the whole time wouldn''t they be just skeletons after a whole year???

[oleander8]

"The roots of this atrocity are found in liberal policies that encourage women to practice indiscriminate breeding." Posted by runningralph

Are you also anti-abortion, and against *** education in our schools?

[oleander8]

"There are plenty of people in the world who would have taken care of these girls!!"Posted by Jennmarikp

Unfortunately, no, there are not.

[jennmarikp]

What a terrible story. This woman needs to be punished. Why adopt children if you don''t want to take care of them? If she decided that she no longer wanted to take care of them why didn''t she contact someone? There are plenty of people in the world who would have taken care of these girls!!

[runningralph]

The roots of this atrocity are found in liberal policies that encourage women to practice indiscriminate breeding. If these children had parents who cared about them they would never have been put on the block for this murdering maniac in the first place. Liberal policies inevitably lead to disaster.

[kpnwknj]

What does race have to do with this? Why does race come up all the time? There are dead innocent children. I''ve seen cases with White people killing their own blood and I''d never judge them because they are White. It''s about the crime they''ve committed. I''ve seen child abuse cases with all races and mother''s killing their own. People STOP the race issue please.

[mswolfestock]

Maybe this sub-human life-form should be put in a freezer . . . . . . .

I''d buy the freezer (made in the USA, please) at Lowe''s or Sears - I''d volunteer to do it. We would be rid of this monster, saving taxpayer dollars - she does not deserve to be housed and fed in prison.